原

HSK 5#1178 by frequencyradical 厂

Yuán["b","d"]

original; former; primary; raw; level; cause; source

Examples

请原谅我吧。

Please, forgive me.

起火原因不明。

The cause of the fire is not known.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.